okay I logged back in on my phone for this:

no decision made yet, but seriously contemplating deactivating. many of the things that most make me want to stay are among the reasons I probably ought to go.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

We thank you, Father, for the water of Baptism.

“I hold that [“do not kill”] moreover means, that we are to aid our neighbor’s life by every means in our power… therefore when [God] so forbids [killing], he, at the same time, demands all the offices of charity which can contribute to his preservation.” — Calvin, Institutes II.8.9

*sees headline* hmm. well, surely the first paragraph will be better… *sees first paragraph* …hmm.

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post #archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

On the blossom-scented air of soft summer eventide, the tables were laid with clean linen, garlanded by flowers and greenery. Servers stood by bearing jugs of apple cider, dandelion'n'rosehip tea, blackcurrant cordial, and the good October Ale for which the Abbey was famed.

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

make me ready, Lord, for whatever

“FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his workspace during a past assignment, according to multiple people familiar with the termination.” Only members of the Strategic Straight Aryan Boy Reserve are invited to work for the federal government.

I guess the thing is that a vanishingly small tiny population that has never been well served by our public school system gets made the face of programming that serves *a different group of students altogether*, and then debates about GT education become a nightmare

part of what’s interesting in this talking-past-each-other discourse is seeing assumptions like, I don’t care about GT programs at all, for any age. But there are absolutely kids who need immediate acceleration or an IEP on day one of kindergarten

i will critique a gifted and talented program all day, with the best of them, but the idea that there do not exist students at both ends of the bell curve who have legitimate academic needs that cannot be met without specific intervention is going to make me lose it

My shoulder is extremely jacked up and my next PT appointment isn’t until a week from tomorrow. Would appreciate prayers for the pain to be controllable with meds+to stop interfering with various activities of daily living

If a gifted kid cannot be appropriately served in the classes their birthdate would place them in, the options I am open to considering are: 1. single subject grade advancement. 2. whole grade advancement. 3. an IEP.

”Mathematics is the gate and the key to the sciences. It is the code upon which the universe has run since the beginning. And that is why there is no purer originalism than six is greater than three.” -John Roberts

tswift: writes a bizarre homophobic diss track people online: omg the gaylors stay winning

“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

please stop posting the horrible AI videos; I know you are making fun of them but they are so so so horrible to see

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

"The two actions (water and consignation), however, are closely connected and may equally well be considered to be two parts of a single action."

*"the eagle has landed" voice* the chickens have hatched

OH SNAP professor just ended class by saying "okay. we've looked at all these. is there any value whatsoever in creating depictions like these at all? I am strongly biased against them" winning

looking at a bunch of trinitarian art for class and while I obviously agree that it's very bad to depict the son and the father and not the spirit, or the spirit just always as a little bird, I do very much feel that "okay so don't depict the father" is the preferable solution to this problem?

If we get to the point where an ER has to turn people with life-threatening medical emergencies away without critical care because of their legal status, I *will* become a fire-and-brimstone street preacher. I will stand on your street corners describing the wrath of God at the top of my lungs.

yIKES

WOAH title iv accord + resignation of retired bp. of the diocese of florida ⚓

okay so gospel reading today is Matthew 14-15 and I gotta say tyrant throwing prophet in prison (and eventually killing him) for speaking out against tyrant's illegal and immoral conduct it, uh, feels timely

god, the book of amos is so good. it's been too long since I read the whole thing.

for the sake of just the kind of clarity I mean: none of this, I hope, will be read to imply that the unpopularity of a true statement is automatically grounds for not-speaking, any more than the bare fact of truth is automatic grounds for speaking, regardless of context.

I think I’m mostly the same person I’ve been since high school, with mostly the same strengths and temptations

To Green Angel Tower is very good so far but honestly it is mostly making me glad that Nona the Ninth ended up a stand-alone novel instead of us getting a “trilogy” where the final book was longer than the first two book combined

NEW: The Supreme Court *refuses* to let Trump fire the Fed's Lisa Cook—for now. Instead, the court agrees to hear the case in January. Cook may continue to serve in the meantime.

trying to get ahead of the curve: the argument that we need a CR so that appropriations negotiation can happen would be a lot more compelling if Republicans had been negotiating on appropriations before the deadline

“A magnificent line from Karl #Barth: ‘Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously, and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game’” ⚓️

day capped off with an email bearing MORE good administrative news (unrelated to the administrative hurdles I’ve had y’all praying about for a month, which also continues to Be Looking Good) what a good day

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

in addition to finishing all my daily responsibilities and going to Extreme Beginner Yoga of Death I also proofed ~110 pages of the theology book I had such a successful and good day

👀

found out today that when we changed from Aetna to UHC for student health insurance that also meant there's now a cap of 12 total sessions of PT per year (august-august), even if they are on unrelated referrals for unrelated PT needs

And it’s most infuriating because the right wing has the gall to say that I’m the crazy one because I want things like “we should feed poor people and give them healthcare” while they’re jumping up and down saying I should be shot for that belief

Hegseth might as well be drafting his own indictment for war crimes.

Reply 😡 to have a happy feast of St Jerome

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same

it is amazing how easy it is to get overwhelmed even by good things, if enough things decide to go ahead and happen all at once

I’m not a bigoted voter, I just think all political strategy should be centered on the preferences of bigoted voters and so I vote identically with them and argue for their causes online.

academia friends! how, in the "publications" section of a CV, should one list a volume for which one was a contributing editor? right now I have the volume itself listed - do I list my own chapter separately? it is a substantive (I guess) and peer-reviewed part of the volume

a strong deeply niche opinion related only by tangent to todays feast: next hymnal should keep “by the creator, Joseph was appointed” but they should let us sing it to Caelites plaudant instead of Caelitum Joseph ⚓️